Latin
Latin |
Alphabet |
4900000over 4900[3] |
English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Romanian, Italian, Malay-Indonesian, German, Turkish, Vietnamese, Polish, Dutch, Swedish, Latin, others |
Worldwide |
Chinese
汉字
漢字 |
Logographic |
13400001340[4] |
Chinese, Japanese (Kanji), Korean (Hanja),[5]Vietnamese (Chu Nom obsolete), Zhuang (Sawndip) |
Eastern Asia, Singapore, Malaysia |
Arabic
العربية |
Abjad or abugida (when diacritics are used) |
0660000660+ |
Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Punjabi, Pashto, Sindhi, Balochi, Malay (Jawi), Uyghur, Kazakh (in China), Kurdish, Azeri (in Iran), others |
Middle East and North Africa, Pakistan, India (some states), China (Xinjiang), Malaysia |
Devanagari
देवनागरी |
Abugida |
0420000420[6] |
Hindi, Marathi, Konkani, Nepali, Sanskrit, several others |
India, Nepal |
Cyrillic
Кирилица |
Alphabet |
0250000250 |
Bulgarian, Russian, Serbian, Ukrainian, Macedonian, others |
Eastern Europe, Central Asia and Mongolia, the Russian Far East |
Bengali / Assamese
বাংলা / অসমীয়া |
Abugida |
0220000220[7] |
Bengali, Assamese, Kokborok, Bishnupriya Manipuri and Meitei Manipuri |
Bangladesh and India (West Bengal, Tripura, Assam, Manipur, Andaman and Nicobar Islands) |
Kana
仮名
かな
カナ |
Syllabary |
0120000120[8] |
Japanese, Okinawan, Ainu |
Japan |
Gurmukhi
ਗੁਰਮੁਖੀ |
Abugida |
0100000100 |
Punjabi |
Punjab (India) |
Javanese
ꦗꦮ |
Abugida |
008000080[9] |
Javanese |
Central Java (Indonesia), Javanese diaspora |
Hangul
한글
조선글 |
Alphabet, featural |
007870078.7[10] |
Korean |
North Korea, South Korea, Jilin Province (China) |
Telugu
తెలుగు |
Abugida |
004500074[11] |
Telugu |
Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Puducherry (India) |
Tamil
தமிழ் |
Abugida |
007000070[12][13] |
Tamil |
Tamil Nadu (India), Puducherry (India), Sri Lanka, Singapore, Malaysia, Mauritius |
Malayalam
മലയാളം |
Abugida |
005200052[14] |
Malayalam |
Kerala, Puducherry (India) |
Burmese
မြန်မာ |
Abugida |
003900039[15] |
Burmese |
Myanmar |
Thai
ไทย |
Abugida |
003800038[16] |
Thai, Southern Thai, Northern Khmer and Lao (Isan) |
Thailand |
Sundanese
ᮞᮥᮔ᮪ᮓ |
Abugida |
003800038 |
Sundanese |
Java, Indonesia |
Kannada
ಕನ್ನಡ |
Abugida |
004500045[17] |
Kannada |
Karnataka (India) |
Gujarati
ગુજરાતી |
Abugida |
003000030 |
Gujarati |
Gujarat (India) |
Lao
ລາວ |
Abugida |
002200022[18] |
Lao |
Laos |
Odia
ଉତ୍କଳ |
Abugida |
002100021[19] |
Odia |
Odisha (India) |
Ge'ez
ግዕዝ |
Abugida |
001800018[20] |
Amharic, Tigrinya |
Ethiopia, Eritrea |
Sinhala
සිංහල |
Abugida |
001440014.4[21] |
Sinhalese |
Sri Lanka |
Armenian
Հայոց |
Alphabet |
001200012 |
Armenian |
Armenia |
Khmer
ខ្មែរ |
Abugida |
001140011.4[22] |
Khmer |
Cambodia |
Greek
Ελληνικό |
Alphabet |
001100011 |
Greek |
Greece, Cyprus, Southern Albania; worldwide for mathematical and scientific purposes |
Lontara
ᨒᨚᨈᨑ |
Abugida |
00076007.6 |
Buginese, Makassar, and Mandar |
Southern Sulawesi, Indonesia |
Hebrew
אלפבית |
Abjad |
00060006 |
Hebrew, Jewish languages |
Israel |
Tibetan
བོད་ |
Abugida |
00050005 |
Tibetic languages |
Tibet, Bhutan, India |
Georgian
ქართული |
Alphabet |
00045004.5 |
Georgian and many other Kartvelian languages |
Georgia |
Modern Yi
ꆈꌠ |
Syllabary |
00040004 |
Nuosu Yi |
Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture of China |
Mongolian
ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ |
Alphabet |
00020002 |
Mongolian |
Mongolia, Inner Mongolia |
Tifinagh
ⵜⵉⴼⵉⵏⴰⵖ |
Abjad |
00010001 |
Berber languages |
North Africa |
Aramaic
ܐܪܡܝܐ |
Abjad |
00004000.4 |
Aramaic |
West Asia |
Thaana
ދިވެހި |
Abugida |
00003500.35 |
Maldivian |
Maldives |
Inuktitut
ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ |
Abugida |
00000350.035 |
Inuktitut |
Canada (North of Tree Line) |
Cherokee
ᏣᎳᎩ |
Syllabary |
00000200.02 |
Cherokee |
United States |